Sarah Palin, a lonely marionette who prayed and prayed every day to become a real girl before finally gaining sentience thanks to an evil wizard, delivered some remarks in Iowa over the weekend at the Faith & Freedom Coalition fall fundraiser. Quoth Palin: “Our free stuff today is being paid for by taking money from our children and borrowing from China. When that money comes due—and this isn’t racist, but it’ll be like slavery when that note is due. We are going to beholden to the foreign master.” Which part of the sentence offends you the most? Keep in mind there is no wrong answer!

Non-racists will likely be primarily offended by all that racism: there’s xenophobia-heavy racism against the Chinese (slave masters did not typically lend slaves money) and then there’s the racism of self-interestedly misrepresenting the brutal history of the American slave system for political gain. Note that “self-interestedly” misrepresenting is not necessarily “deliberately” misrepresenting—in Palin’s defense, she is an idiot. “It”—owing money—won’t “be like slavery” at all, and saying so is a horrible insult to an entire formerly dehumanized race that still combats institutionalized oppression championed by people like Sarah Palin.

But that’s not all: speech-writers should be offended, too! While it is technically grammatically correct, it is very awkward phrasing to say that money “comes due.” It would be more lucid and less clunky to say that money is due. For example: Sarah Palin does not come irrelevant; Sarah Palin is irrelevant.